Socialist Party of Chile

The Socialist Party of Chile (PS) is a socialist political party of Chile founded on 19 April 1933. It had multiple presidents of Chile, with Salvador Allende, Ricardo Lagos, and Michelle Bachelet being presidents of the Socialist Party.

History
On 19 April 1933 the Socialist Party of Chile was founded by Colonel Marmaduke Grove, Salvador Allende, and other personalities, with the party's popularity rising the outbreak of the Great Depression in the 1930s. On 4 November 1970, after playing a small role in politics, the party elected Salvador Allende as the first Marxist president in Latin America to be picked in open elections, having run three times before. However, on 11 September 1973 the Chilean Army under Augusto Pinochet overthrew Allende's government, and the leftists either fled the country or were tortured in Operation Condor, with some even being killed. After the transition to democracy in 1990, Ricardo Lagos was elected president in 2000, and in 2006-2010 and 2014-present Michelle Bachelet was elected as president. In 2015, they had 15/120 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, 6/38 senate seats, and 30/345 mayors in their party.